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... royal house . We cannot quite admit his explanation ; but the fact is indisputable . Since the accession of George the First , there have been four Princes of Wales , and they have all been almost constantly in Opposition . 66 ...
... royal house . We cannot quite admit his explanation ; but the fact is indisputable . Since the accession of George the First , there have been four Princes of Wales , and they have all been almost constantly in Opposition . 66 ...
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... Royal family was rather strengthened than weakened by the disagreement of its two most distinguished members . A large class of politicians , who had considered them- selves as placed under sentence of perpetual exclusion from office ...
... Royal family was rather strengthened than weakened by the disagreement of its two most distinguished members . A large class of politicians , who had considered them- selves as placed under sentence of perpetual exclusion from office ...
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... royal displeasure . Pitt , on his part , omitted nothing that might facilitate his ad- mission to office . He resigned his place in the household of Prince Frederick , and , when Parliament met , exerted his elo- quence in support of ...
... royal displeasure . Pitt , on his part , omitted nothing that might facilitate his ad- mission to office . He resigned his place in the household of Prince Frederick , and , when Parliament met , exerted his elo- quence in support of ...
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... royal presence . But the King was inexorable . " The House of Com- mons , Sir , " said Pitt , seems inclined to mercy . " 66 66 Sir , " an- swered the King , " you have taught me to look for the sense of my people in other places than ...
... royal presence . But the King was inexorable . " The House of Com- mons , Sir , " said Pitt , seems inclined to mercy . " 66 66 Sir , " an- swered the King , " you have taught me to look for the sense of my people in other places than ...
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... royal favor , and who had bound himself , by a solemn promise , never to coalesce with Pitt , was meditating a new perfidy . Of all the statesmen of that age , Fox had the largest share of royal favor . A coalition between Fox and New ...
... royal favor , and who had bound himself , by a solemn promise , never to coalesce with Pitt , was meditating a new perfidy . Of all the statesmen of that age , Fox had the largest share of royal favor . A coalition between Fox and New ...
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Página 184 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 161 - Some years after, it was my fortune to converse with many of the principal actors against that minister, and with those who principally excited that clamour. None of them, no not one, did in the least defend the measure, or attempt to justify their conduct. They condemned it as freely as they would have done in commenting upon any proceeding in history in which they were totally unconcerned.
Página 171 - I was taken to see the place where the two rivers meet, — the one gentle, feeble, languid, and, though languid, yet of no depth, the other a boisterous and impetuous torrent ; but different as they are, they meet at last.
Página 163 - Pitt was then one of the poor ; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of ' ' the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Página 163 - More than thirty years before, her temper had ruined the party to which she belonged and the husband whom she adored. Time had made her neither wiser nor kinder. Whoever was at any moment great and prosperous was the object of her fiercest detestation. She had hated Walpole; she now hated Carteret. Pope, long before her death, predicted the fate of her vast property — "To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store, Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor.
Página 168 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.
Página 176 - Commons had been elected when he was at the head of affairs. The members for the ministerial boroughs had all been nominated by him. The public offices swarmed with his creatures. Pitt desired power — and he desired it, we really believe, from high and generous motives. He was, in the strict sense of the word, a patriot. He had...